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In The Fissured Workplace: Why Work Became So Bad for So Many and What Can Be Done to Improve It, David Weil traced the cracks that have developed in the traditional worker-employer relationship, and presented some ideas for updating our employment laws to more adequately address an economy characterized by outsourcing, subcontracting, streamlining, and freelancing. Since taking over as Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor in mid-2014, Weil has worked steadily to apply those ideas. In some areas, though, what we’ve needed isn’t a new legal framework so much as better application and enforcement of what’s in place. To that end, last week W…